Dust-pan attachment for brooms.



APPLICATION FILED APR. 22, I913.

Patented June 27, 1916.

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I wi/bwemo GEORGE WASHINGTON BROOKS, OF HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

DUST-PAN ATTACHMENT FOR BROOMS Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 27 ,1916.

Application filed April 22, 1913. Serial No. 762,836.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE WASHINGTON BROOKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hendersonville, in the county of Henderson and State of North Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements is Dust-Pan Attachments for Brooms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to dust pans.

One object of the invention is. to provide a dust pan adapted to be carried upon a broom and so connected thereto that it will reinforce the broom handle, brace the broom straws and permit a free swing of the straws when sweeping with one side and a stiffening action when -sweeping with the other side.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a deviceof this character which is so constructed that when engaged with the broom, as shown in the drawings, it will be held in position thereon against accidental displacement when the broom is set upon the end of the handle.

Further objects of the invention will appear as the following description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application, and in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device applied to a broom. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation. Fig. 3 is a detail longitudinal section through the pan and the broom. Fig. 4: is a perspective view of the pan removed from the broom.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 represents the back or bottom portion of the broom which is provided with inwardly curved side flanges 2 adapted to retain the dust when the pan is in use and adapted when not in use to retain and prevent spreading of the broom. This back or bottom portion 1 is connected by soldering or any other suitable manner to a conical sleeve 3 which is adapted to fit the head of the broom and which in turn is connected to a smaller conical sleeve 4 adapted to fit the binding ends of the straws which surround the stafl' or handle 5. This conical sleeve 4 has its small end connected to a tubular handle 6 which surrounds and reinforces the handle of the broom, as will be readily understood.

In order to prevent the flanges 2 from spreading and to restrict the spreading action of the broom straws and to provide means for securing the dust pan upon the broom against displacement when the broom is set up on end I secure to the side flanges 2 a retaining plate 7 which coacts with the back wall of the back or bottom 1 to bind upon the head of the broom, as will be readily seen from an ins motion of Fig. 3 where is shown the plate Y resiliently gripping the under portion of the bulged part of the broom head. The front edge of this retaining plate is somewhat nearer the inner wall of the back or bottom portion than is the back edge thereof so that when the dust pan is placed upon the broom the resilience of the plate 7 will permit the same to be sprung over the bulged head of the broom,

and thereby retain the dust pan in position upon the broom until positively removed.

"What I claim is A dust pan comprising a back portion having inwardly turned flanges adapted to inclose portions of the vertical ends of the head of a broom, a tubular handle secured to the flanges and back and adapted to encircle the handle of a broom and a resilient rectangular connecting plate secured at its ends only to said flanges and arranged substantially parallel to the back and adapted to extend directly across the head of a broom and resiliently engage beneath the bulged portion of the latter, said plate and back adapted to lie on opposite sides of a broom head.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE WASHINGTON BROOKS.

Witnesses:

C. E. BROOKS, LOUIS E. HEsTERLY. 

